Wheel for vehicles.



PA'IBNTED OCT. 23, 1906.

w. G:.TITHERINGTON. WHEBL'FOR VEHICLES. APPLICATION IiLED AUG. 14, 1905.

fccornqyd UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' WILLIAM GEORGE TITHERINGTON. OF LIVERPOOL, WHEEL'FOR VEHICLES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM GEORGE TITHERINGTON, a subject of the King of England, and a resident of 27 Sandringham road,

' Tue Brook, Liver 001, in the county of Lancaster, England, ave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wheels for Vehicles, of which the following is a specification. This invention has reference to wheels for vehicles, and has for its object to provide a tire or road-bearing surface consisting of segmental-blocks or ieces of wood or other suitable material an means whereby said segments are secured in position outside the rim or felly of the wheel, as hereinafter described. According to my invention the segmental blocks which comprise the tire are cut or recessed on both sides and are secured firmly in position by means of rings, one on either side I of the wheel, which, rings are each provided with an annular projection; The projection of the ring enters the recess in the segments, and these are so cut or formed that when the said rings are placed in position they tend to draw the se ents inward toward the center of'the whee thus binding them closely together. The rings are secured on the wheel by means of bolts ,fastened through them at a suitable distance be otherwise suita ly secured.

In useshould one or more of the segments need renewal this may be easily and readily effected by the removal of a ring referred to, when the segment or segments ma be removed and another or others inserte in position, whereupon the ring is ti htened up in position again. Further, sho d the tire as a whole need tightening this may be done by screwing up the rings so drawing the segments together by reason of the formation of the ann ar projection of the rin'g and the recesses in the segments, the movement of the segments being toward thecenter of the wheel.

In the accompan awings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, and; 2 a p an, partly in section, of a wheel 'provided with my improvements. Figs 3 and 4 are details.

0. represents a wheel rim or felly of wood, and a an iron tire round it. This felly, however, may be of any other suitable construction and forms no Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed August 14, 1905. Serial No. 274.181.

apart, and nuts,-or they may part of the present inven- Patented Oct. 23, 1906.

6 represents the segmental blocks.

a designates the cuts or recesses on each side of the blocks 1).

(1 represents the side rings, and e the annular projections on same, w 'ch projections fit into the-recesses of the blocks b, as shown.

dindicates bolts b s1 e rings d are fir y secured to the felly a which the blocks 6 and a, and g represents nuts on f for tightening. 7

his a rub er strip which may be disposed around a, so as to afford a yielding bed for the blocks'b.

When the blocks 6 are of wood, the grain will preferably run endwise in the usual manner of segmental blocks for wheel-tires. (See Fig. 1.)

In some cases as an additional means of firmly securing the road bearing-blocks on the felly so as to revent cree mg I may rovide lugs d, w 'ch enter soc ets a of the felly a (See Figs. 3 and 4.) I a As shown in the drawings, when the component parts of the wheel are first assembled suflicient space will be provided between proj ections e and recesses c to permit of the tightening of the blocks b in the manner described.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters. Patent, is-

The hereindescribed improvements in wheels for vehicles comprising in combination a felly a; a tire or road-bearing surface of wooden segmental blocks b recessed at c on their side edges; side rings 11 having rojections e fitting in said recesses where ythe blocks may be adjusted byreason of the provision of play or draw rovided between the recesses c and rojectlons e; lu d on rings (1 adapted to fit 1n sockets in the elly a; a yielding bed between the blocks and fellly and means for tightening and adjusting t e ringed, substantially as scribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification inthe presence of.

two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM crows munsmcror.

Witnesses:-

JOHN H. WALKER, Wm, BARKER. 

